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UNDP Report Acknowledges Muslim Brotherhood Role in Fighting Poverty

The UNDP annual human development report 2008 released Tuesday highlighted the positive role played by the Muslim Brotherhood in political, social, and charity areas, and showed the astronomical increase in the levels of poverty, unemployment and deterioration of medical services and education in Egypt...

Unfair Sentence Against blogger Tariq Biasi

The Syrian Human Rights Committee condemned the unfair sentence issued on Sunday 10/05/2008 by the exceptional Supreme State Security Court against the detained youth Tariq Omar Biasi...

Election Preferences on the Arab Street

Zogby International and the University of Maryland’s Shibley Telhami conducted a poll last month of 6 Arab publics: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE...

HRInfo Condemns Blocking Kefaya Website

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said today, that the website of the Egyptian Movement for Change:Kefaya "http://Harakamasria.org" was blocked in Egypt and the Internet users who have access to Internet through the T-Data Company, the largest Internet Service Providers in Egypt, which is controlled by the Egyptian Government since 4th May...

Anti-siege committee: Allowing in small fuel quantities an Israeli game

The popular committee against the siege stated that the Israeli occupation manipulates one and a half million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip when it allows in every few weeks small quantities of fuel supplies enough for one day and disregards the international demands calling for stopping this crisis...

Dwaik: Return of Palestinian refugees is a sacred right

Kidnapped Hamas senior political leader and speaker of the PA legislature MP Dr. Aziz Dwaik described on Monday the Right of Return of the Palestinian refugees as the "hard rock" on which the dreams of the Israeli occupation will be broken...

Egyptian human rights groups critical of EU report on Egypt

A coalition of Egyptian human rights organizations have objected to a recent European Union report on Egypt that they say ignored major abuses, Almasry Alyoum reported Monday. ..

European Commission ignorance of Egypt’s freedoms

Twelve human rights organizations in Egypt have criticized the European commissariat’s report because it ignored all human rights issues in Egypt. They added that such a report has left off the Egyptian organizations’ visions as well as the concerns of the European Parliament’s report in January that stressed the bloody deterioration of human rights conditions in Egypt...

West Bank journalists detained by PA intelligence

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the distention of three Palestinian journalists and a columnist by the Palestinian General Intelligence Service (GIS) in Bethlehem and Qalqilya towns in the West Bank on Thursday, 8 May 2008. PCHR believes that such arrests constitute an attack on press freedoms and the right to freedom of expression, which are ensured by the Palestinian Basic Law and international human rights instruments...

Rally At the Bar Association on Nakba Day

The forum of the Popular Committees for Supporting Resistance is organizing a rally before the Bar Association on Thursday 1:30 pm to express solidarity with the Palestinian resistance in the occasion of the Nakba anniversary...

Health ministry: Entire health services doomed to collapse due to siege

The health ministry in the PA caretaker government on Monday warned that the entire health services in the Gaza Strip are doomed to collapse due to the repeated power outages and lack of fuel to operate generators...

One world condemns the torture of the face book activists

One world foundation for development and civil society care condemns the kidnapping and torturing Ahmad Maher Ibrahim who works as a civil engineer and the real founder of the strike group on the face book website...

MB MP Calls for Applying Pay Rise in Private Sector

Mahmoud Meghed (member of the MB parliamentary bloc) demanded the Egyptian government to oblige the private sector to raise the employees" salaries by 30% to be equal to those of the public sectors to cover for the latest price hikes. ..

MB MP Condemns Low Education Budget

Ali Ismaeel (member of the MB parliamentary bloc) has submitted a query to the Premier regarding a statements made by the Minister of Education about demanding 28 million pounds for education development and the refusal of the Minister of Finance to allocate this demand any funds...

Public March to Mubarak’s Palace Protesting Gas Exports to Israel

The Egyptian Public Campaign Against Exporting Gas to Israel is organizing a peaceful march beginning from the Nile bridge down to Al-Oruba Presidential Palace on May 20. ..

Brotherhood MP Criticizes Delivering Egypt Natural Gas to Israel before Cairo Districts

Mahmoud Megahed (member of Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary Bloc) denounced exporting natural gas to the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) and other European countries while failing to deliver it to Cairo densely-populated districts like Matariyah, Ain Shams...

Gaza bakeries stop working due to lack of fuel, electricity

Owners of bakeries in Gaza Strip on Sunday announced that their bakeries had closed down due to the lack of fuel, gas and electricity that were blocked by Israeli occupation authority...

Muslim Brotherhood Member Killed in Sudan Clashes

Ahmad Gomaa, a leading Muslim Brotherhood member in Northern Cairo, has been killed in the Saturday night assault by Darfur rebels on Khartoum...

Brotherhood MP: Gov’t Policy Will Place All Egyptians Under Poverty Line

Mosa Ghanoum (Muslim Brotherhood MP) warned in a parliament session that the current government’s policies will place all the Egyptian people under poverty line. ..

Muslim Brotherhood Chairman: Key Principles in the Palestinian Cause

In his weekly message, Mohamed Mahdi Akef (chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood) emphasized the basic facts which determine MB stance towards the Palestinian cause...